Author: martdj

Creating an IBM HTTP Server key db from a .pfx file

Posted on January 5, 2025January 7, 2025 by martdj

t’s a question that I get quite often. “Can you create a IHS key database for me from this pfx certificate”? Multiple of our customers use IBM HTTP Server. Either for HCL Connections, but also as a reverse proxy for other services. Most of those customers use a wildcard certificate for their IHS server that has to be renewed each year. As I hate this kind of repetitive work, I created a script to do it for me. As it could be of use to others, I decided to create a blog article about it.

A little Domino container story

Posted on December 30, 2024December 31, 2024 by martdj

A short story of my experience of updating a Domino 10 on CentOS 7 server to a Domino 14.0 FP3 IF2 server on AlmaLinux 9 using containers.

Changing the file size limit for a community

Posted on November 29, 2024December 5, 2024 by martdj

By default, a HCL Connections community can contain 500 MB of files in the Files widget. Depending on what kind of content is posted in the community, that might not be enough. It’s possible to change the file limit, both for communities and for personal files. This article shows how to do it.

Modern email protocols: DANE, MTA-STS and TLS-RPT

Posted on November 7, 2024November 7, 2024 by martdj

In my recent OpenNTF webinar on modern E-mail Server operations, I covered several SMTP-related protocols like DKIM, SPF, and DMARC. However, with ongoing efforts to enhance the security of SMTP, new protocols have emerged, and these are the focus of this article.

Building custom add-ons for your Domino container image

Posted on October 10, 2024October 10, 2024 by martdj

I realised today that there’s a piece of the Domino container project that I presented on multiple times this year, but which neither I nor Daniel ever properly documented. So here’s the documentation on Domino container image custom add-ons.

Domino and Modern E-mail Server Operations

Posted on October 3, 2024March 19, 2025 by martdj

Last July, I presented a session for OpenNTF titled “How to use Domino as a Mail Server in a Modern World”. It was an in-depth session on the history of the SMTP protocol, new email security protocols and how to configure them to have the best chance that a mail from your domain will reach the intended recipient. In this article, I’ll cover some of the interesting things that I encountered during my research for this session and some more information on things that I covered and things that I didn’t cover.

Installing Domino REST API in an existing Domino container server

Posted on October 2, 2024October 3, 2024 by martdj

Domino REST API is one of the add-ons that you can select when creating a Domino container image. That creates a Domino image that includes everything you need to run the Domino REST API on your server, except when that server already existed before you added the REST API…

End of Life for CentOS 7 AND CentOS 8 Stream

Posted on July 2, 2024July 2, 2024 by martdj

That CentOS 7 would go end-of-life at the end of last month, shouldn’t have come as a surprise to anyone any more, although many CentOS 7 servers are still around. That CentOS Stream 8 went end-of-life in May 2024 did come as a surprise to me.

Installing Huddo Boards on WebSphere-only Connections

Posted on June 24, 2024March 14, 2025 by martdj

One of the nicer extensions which you get when you install the HCL Connections component pack is Activities Plus, or, if you pay an extra license fee to ISW/Huddo, Huddo Boards. If you don’t want to install the component pack, you can still use Huddo Boards. This article explains how.

Upgrading your PostgreSQL database

Posted on May 26, 2024May 26, 2024 by martdj

Some posts are more for my own documentation. This is one of them. It might benefit someone else, though. It describes how to migrate your PostgreSQL database to a later version.